It was replaced with the Russian tricolor flag following the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist system. Russian soldiers began raising Soviet-era red flags in occupied areas of Ukraine ...

This year—25 years after the Soviet Union’s collapse ... Supporters of the Other Russia, an opposition party, rally in Moscow, displaying flags and armbands with their symbol, a grenade.

Russian Flag Day was established by a decree of Russian President Boris Yeltsin on August 20, 1994. On this day in 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian RSFSR adopted a decree ‘On creation of ...